Nordic Ideology: A Metamodern Guide to Politics, Book Two

by Hanzi Freinacht

Ultimately, the political always rests upon a personal foundation, and this foundation is always relational. We need Gemeinschaft Politics. As I have argued, for a society to actively and deliberately cultivate and promote the quality of all human relations, the personal must become a political issue. This drives us towards the frightening conclusion that even the love affairs of teenagers are of political concern, that how many friends an average old drunk has is a political issue. It is a matter of public interest, because it affects all of us. In order for society to self-organize at a new and higher level, the realm of the political must expand; the political must dive into the human soul, crawl in under our very skins. This can and will of course get creepy as hell—unless a corresponding deepening of democracy has occurred, so that it is not an expert committee who subtly nudges and shapes the rest of us, but rather a free, transparent and fair debate is had about how citizens want to shape the generative preconditions for rich and functional relations to thrive.